Governor Abdullah Umar Ganduje of Kano State has accused the
leader of the defunct Congress for Progressives (CPC) Alhaji Buba Galadima of
suffering from political malfunction.
Ganduje also described Buba Galadima’s claims on Kano state
governorship election as baseless and lacking in required merit as well as a
claim coming from a dysfunctional politician.
Galadima, had yesterday said the Supreme Court verdict that
removed Emeka Ihedioha as governor of Imo state should not exonerate Governor
Abdullah Umar Ganduje of Kano state due to what he considered similar incidence
.
Galadima told journalists in Abuja, that the technicalities
considered and applied by the apex court which affirmed Hope Uzodinma as
governor of Imo state on Tuesday, tied to the cancellation of votes he
allegedly belong to Abba Kabiru Yusuf of (PDP) Kano.
But responding, Governor Ganduje through his elections cases
legal team leader, Barrister Mohammad Abdullahi Lawan contended that the view
of Galadima was absolutely no correlation between the facts and circumstances
of the Emeka Ihedioha case and that of governor Ganduje, insisting that points
raised by the PDP stalwart was rather unbridled ignorance of the law.
In a release made available to journalists, Barrister Lawan
explained that “ In the former (Ihedioha case), whilst there was glaring
evidence of the cancellation of results by officials other than the presiding
officers, in the later case (Governor Ganduje) there was no evidence of such
cancellation by officials order than the presiding officers. Instead, there was
proven evidence in the Governor Ganduje case, that the cancellation of some of
the 207 polling units were carried out by the respective INEC Polling Unit
Presiding Officers as was clearly depicted in the numerous Form ECG 40s
tendered and admitted in evidence without any objections by the Petitioners.
“Again, in the Ganduje case, there was the inability of the
INEC to collate the results of 62 polling units in Gama ward comprising of over
48,000 registered voters in an election with a lead margin of only 26,000
votes! What is worse is that the disruption of the collation of the said
results was caused by the PDP agent, one Dr Yakasai who testified as PW30. He
admitted that whilst the said results were being collated, a commotion arose
and he carted away the original Results of INEC and hid himself in a room for
over one hour with a Biro with him! He kept the sensitive INEC documents in his
custody for another hour before allegedly taking the said documents to the Kano
Commissioner of Police instead of INEC.
“In the end, only twelve of those results were tendered in
court by the Police. How on earth was the INEC supposed to collate the said
results? Could the INEC have declared in an inconclusive election and thus
disenfranchise over 48,000 voters in an election where the lead margin is only
26,000 votes. Finally the so called expert witness called by PDP admitted on
oath that after his study of all the results, he agreed with the INEC
cancellation of the results of 77 polling units on the basis of over voting.
This in law is an admission against interest which the various courts are
obliged by law to accept and which the two lower courts accepted”. Barrister
Lawan maintained.
The coordinator of Ganduje legal team, explained that
Galadima argument was fallacious and must be discountenanced by the general
public.
Lawan who restated Governor Ganduje’s conviction on the
credibility and hope in the judiciary however debunked any negative tendencies
suggesting possible illusion and pressure against the Supreme Court Judgment on
Kano gubernatorial election slated for 20th, January, 2020
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